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calvin_

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    Comment #33167564

    Except no one wants to write drivers in Forth.

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    Comment #32473571

    Have fun with libGL!

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    Comment #30492506

    The deep irony is Windows has achieved its herculean backwards compatibility through dynamic linking.

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    Comment #30492490

    Not because it'd be any good, but because it'd be cheaper for Microsoft.

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    Comment #30491908

    RCS dying on the hill of DDR training blobs seems a bit ridiculous to me when the system is much better elsewhere. RYF in action!

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    Comment #29714243

    people chose those things due to superiority, not any dogmatic reason. i.e. wordpress was there and does what you expect it to. (besides, linux displaces windows on the server, but…

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    Comment #29714212

    just because someone is a dev (even a good one) doesn't mean figuring out IRC is worth their time disclaimer: i have 80 buffers in my irssi session, but i know why most people aren…

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    Comment #29363807

    just PowerPC assembly before, but mostly on a much smaller scale (RE or writing basic blocks)

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    Comment #29363786

    they don't need BT, but rather, you can't let the VM manage its own PTEs. virtualbox lets you configure that - just turn off nested paging. vmware unfortunately doesn't do that. if…

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    Comment #29363770

    VMware still supports it, it just uses an old version of Tools to do so.

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    Comment #29363759

    that page is a bit outdated; i do know VBox has changed for at least devices like SVGA, so I think it's possible. that said, i don't use vbox, so i can't say for sure

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    Comment #27978628

    I'm perfectly happy with Preview.app; I'm curious what's not working for you?

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    Comment #27933927

    Most of these apps are just dipping mustards around HOTP/TOTP, so it's a standard protocol. There's an ecosystem of standard applications around it; Twilio, Microsoft, and Google a…

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    Comment #27836583

    I think you underestimate a lot of the APIs for a platform and how they influence an app; Cocoa provides a lot for an application; for example, it can provide a lot of the structur…

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    Comment #27234916

    Windows based editors are a dying breed. The Unix and web-based editors have sucked the oxygen out of the room.

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    Comment #27062989

    Except VDI products for enterprise already exist and are much cheaper than Mighty. AWS, Citrix, VMware, and probably others play in this space.

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    Comment #26848567

    I use a client that does make it easy, but I shouldn't have to worry about this. Mailing lists are basically full of people who use email in an exceedingly specific way no one outs…

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    Comment #23349667

    As someone with lots of experience porting stuff to AIX, this is fairly accurate. AIX takes a malicious compliance stance to POSIX. The worst part is that the AIX compatibility lay…

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    Comment #17193713

    I wouldn't be surprised if there's more i shops using newer software than AIX shops, nowadays. IBM's own ports of things like nginx, node, and Ruby to "AIX" were all to support i.

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    Comment #17190113

    I know a friend who's employer was throwing out an E4A. OS/400 is also pretty interesting from an architecture perspective too.

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    Comment #17189053

    I was never paid by IBM to do anything; this is a hobbyist endeavour.